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I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.

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Quiet moments recharge me.
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Moments Myself Quiet Recharge
If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.
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Different Each Other Empathy Learning Time
You could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn’t mean much without family.
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Family Rich World Yourself
The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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Arrangement Small Yourself
Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can’t fail.
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Failure Option Thinking Vocabulary Word Yourself
I feel more like I’m a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.
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Chance Dangerous Different Direction Feeling Myself Offering Person Wings
Love me like you’ll never see me again.
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Love Myself Relationship See Yourself
Wait, I’m deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.
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Decision Myself Original Self Love
Your life can become the background for the art you create.
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Art Creation Life Yourself
We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there’s nothing we can do.
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Conflict Help People Potential Poverty Thinking
It’s the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.
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Feeling Myself Unknown Vulnerable
I’m very happy with my body.
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Acceptance Body Happiness Myself Self Love
Prayer keeps me centered.
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Center Myself Prayer
What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
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Break Heart Love Need Suffering Unity
I believe if you can find something to give back to, your soul will feel fulfilled in a very powerful way.
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Believe Feeling Fulfill Powerful Soul Way Yourself
I know people who’ve gone to jail. It don’t mean you stop loving them! They deservin’ love just as much in there, and maybe they needin’ it more.
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Deserve Myself Need People Prison Stop

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.

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I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.

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